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Curiosities of the sky, a popular presentation of the great riddles and mysteries of astronomy (1909)

Serviss, Garrett Putman, 1851-1929 · New York, London, Harper & brothers · leaf 167

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ark-browed, dreadfully-in-earnest preacher of the old-fashioned type. Myheart literally sank at sight of the spectacle, for itrecalled the preachers very words; it was just as hehad said it would be, and it needed the assuredbearing of my elders finally to convince me that •That Day of Wrath, O… … MARVELS OF THE AURORA misgivings when menacing spots of crimson appeared,breaking out now here, now there, in the shudderingsky. Toward the north the spectacle was appalling.A huge arch spanned an unnaturally dark segmentresting on the horizon, and above this arch sprang upbeams and streamers in a…

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